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One Million K-12 Students Are Homeless
The Department of Education released its latest report on homeless students last month and the numbers are startling.
Laura Gottesdiener: On Housing and Fighting Back Against Dreams Delayed
Stores like Walmart, Costco and Home Depot are providing financial products like mortgages and various loans.
JP Morgan Pays $13 Billion in Historic Settlement
Taxpayers might be on the hook for 35 percent of JP Morgan's settlement cost.
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Witnessing the Projects: Audrey Petty’s “High Rise Stories“
In “High Rise Stories,” editor Audrey Petty has put a human face on public housing, offering front-line histories that address the institutional roadblocks and self-sabotage that all too often …
Fair Housing Groups Ask Court to Deny Banks’ Effort to Stop Richmond’s Mortgage Rescue Plan
The brief argues that the actions the securitization industry has threatened to take to block the program, known as Richmond CARES, would amount to illegal redlining and would violate …
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Regulators Repeat Exactly What They Did During the Last Housing Boom
James Kwak examines the shortcomings of the Dodd-Frank Act.
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If It Takes Blocking a Bank Door With Your Body to Keep Your Home, Would You Do It?
In her new book, Laura Gottesdiener puts faces to the facts of the subprime mortgage crisis; specifically the faces of black Americans, who are bearing the brunt of the …
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Fighting Back Against Predatory Lenders Is a Struggle for Justice
In “A Dream Foreclosed,” Laura Gottesdiener looks at the decimating impact of the loss of houses, property and community caused by the foreclosure crisis.
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Black-White Income Differences: What’s Happened?
The economic position of African Americans relative to White Americans has not improved over the last 40 years.
Resisting Foreclosure: Rising Up for a Dream Called Home
“Can a society truly be a democracy if housing is not considered a right?” Laura Gottesdiener tells Truthout reagarding her new book.